Last Time They Were Here Was When Sir Alex Arrived / United's 40-Year Nightmare: Urgent Need for Sir Alex Ferguson

Manchester United have not had such a bad start in 40 years, since the team was floundering in deep crisis until Sir Alex Ferguson arrived and saved the club.

According to Sports Three, Manchester United had the weakest start to the season in the last four decades by losing the home win against Tottenham in the sixth week of the English Premier League. It may be hard to believe, but Michael Carrick has made himself known as the worst coach since the legendary era of Sir Alex.

United missed the win against Tottenham when all the conditions were there to grab three points at Old Trafford. Manchester took the lead, but in spite of the numerical advantage and the opponent's ten players, they received the equalizer in the final minutes. In a strange duel with Lisandro Martinez, Solanke twisted his body so much that the ball finally hit a point of his body and entered the goal of Sane Lamans. It was undoubtedly one of the most bitter goals the Carrick team has conceded since he was on the bench.

This bitter home draw confirms a deep crisis in the Red Devils camp. The BBC has concluded that the last time Manchester United managed to get six points or less after the first six weeks of the league was the 1987-1986 season under Ron Atkinson. In that season, United had accumulated only four points from the six matches at the beginning of the season. In that season, Atkinson was sacked due to poor results and then the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson took over the club to change the history of Manchester United.

The interpretation of this statistic is really simple: Manchester United is exactly back to the peak of the crisis. Back to the days when all hope was lost and a Scottish man came hoping to lift the Red Devils out of the crisis a little, but what was the result? That Scottish man became a legend and the Red Devils became one of the greatest teams in football history.

It is interesting that in the era of the transformation of the name of the first level of English football into the Premier League, i.e. 1992, it is the first time that Manchester United experienced such a nightmarish and weak start. That is, if we only measure since the beginning of the Premier League, Michael Carrick alone has had the worst start of the season.